Rímur : chants, hymns, folk songs and improvisations based on Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish sources

"Rímur is a collection of seventeen chants, hymns, folk songs and improvisations based on ancient Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish sources, brought into our contemporary way of sensing by singer/violinist Anna Maria Friman, singers Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Berit Opheim, and eminent trumpeter Arve Henriksen ... Impressive from the first moment of listening is the strength, calmness and concentration this originally monophonic music exudes. Some may need more time to really get into it but it offers the listener to opportunity to feel the deeper ground of existence the music is touching upon".

"The music is drawn from Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, and Scottish sources and includes both chant and secular folk music, approaching the sometimes elusive connections between the two in a wholly novel way. Certainly, as with many of ECM's more experimental releases, this will appeal most of all to listeners with a certain speculative frame of mind, but it might catch the attention both of early music specialists and of those in search of an exotic meditative mood".

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"An intoxicating mix of chants, hymns and folksongs, performed in charmingly simple vocal arrangements alongside hardanger fiddle and droning shruti box".